Through the Lens of Scripture
In this podcast I take a close look at a wide variety of topics using the Bible as my lens. When we look at the world through the lens of scripture we discover life-changing truth that transforms us. We discover our identity, purpose and worth. We find answers to life's most pressing questions. “If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there.” But when we look at the world through the lens of scripture we find the "way, the truth and the life;" then we live life to the fullest.
Episodes
June 26, 2023 • 3 mins
Warrior Richardson: ...and they all know that.
Monica Larson: There's a few individuals, sometimes they're just, you know, they don't understand. because everyone's at different places and walks in life. I've actually heard individuals say, "Well, I don't sin.I don't do anything wrong.
Warrior Richardson: I've heard that.
Monica Larson: It's deception from the enemy. I appreciate you explaining that. For an individual who says, "I wa...
Monica Larson: There's a few individuals, sometimes they're just, you know, they don't understand. because everyone's at different places and walks in life. I've actually heard individuals say, "Well, I don't sin.I don't do anything wrong.
Warrior Richardson: I've heard that.
Monica Larson: It's deception from the enemy. I appreciate you explaining that. For an individual who says, "I wa...
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June 23, 2023 • 3 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: I've heard individuals say, "There's no heaven. "There's no hell." Well, heaven and hell are definitely real; and so what would you say to those individuals who want to debate that there is no heaven and there is no hell.
Warrior Richardson: Well, it's an academic question. I know it has a reality to it; but in the here now on this earth... technically you can have a hell on earth. If there is no heaven...Okay. Th...
Warrior Richardson: Well, it's an academic question. I know it has a reality to it; but in the here now on this earth... technically you can have a hell on earth. If there is no heaven...Okay. Th...
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June 21, 2023 • 3 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: I've heard individuals say, "There's no heaven. "There's no hell." Well, heaven and hell are definitely real; and so what would you say to those individuals who want to debate that there is no heaven and there is no hell.
Warrior Richardson: Well, it's an academic question. I know it has a reality to it; but in the here now on this earth... technically you can have a hell on earth. If there is no heaven...Okay. Th...
Warrior Richardson: Well, it's an academic question. I know it has a reality to it; but in the here now on this earth... technically you can have a hell on earth. If there is no heaven...Okay. Th...
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June 19, 2023 • 3 mins
Warrior Richardson:people get married and they get a wife and they love their wife. The wife is beautiful. She's a wonderful wife, supportive and all those kinds of things; but there's something missing. A wife is a wonderful thing to have but a wife cannot fill that hole that only God can fill. No matter how much success we have with music, career, a family, there's something missing; and it is obvious to every human being just as...
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June 16, 2023 • 3 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: God just totally envelopes us and our lives are changed for the better. And you mentioned you had no meaning you had no hope you had no purpose and then God just completely turned that around.
And so, our viewers who are listening, it's really imperative some of you might be feeling this way and are feeling down, feeling hopeless, feeling that there is no meaning to life. So, Warrior, what could you share with tho...
And so, our viewers who are listening, it's really imperative some of you might be feeling this way and are feeling down, feeling hopeless, feeling that there is no meaning to life. So, Warrior, what could you share with tho...
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June 14, 2023 • 3 mins
Warrior Richardson: once I reached the point I didn't care whether I lived or died the only thing that mattered to me was the Gospel, and that's true unto this day. So, and that's why all my art is focused on the Gospel. Quite typically, I start with a secular point of origin and then I take it to its logical conclusion. I either show how secularism leads to meaninglessness or I show how the hole in every man's heart that is unfulf...
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June 12, 2023 • 2 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: Amen. And so, let me ask you this, 'cause I know God has truly transformed your life even past that point because he's given you the ability for supernatural things like learning Spanish fluently, learning software packages, creating a Christian comic book and animated series and creating Christian merchandise. You're writing a book. You provide graphic services. So, can you share a little bit about all the amazi...
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June 9, 2023 • 2 mins
I was thoroughly confused. And so, I'm making...I'm leaving out a lot of details. At the end of that 72 hour prayer, 72 hour fast 72 hour prayer I walked out of that church [and] with every step each step that I made, took another thing became clear. I said/thought, "Oh, I get it. I understand". And my understanding continued to increase rapidly and, so yeah, uh that was my conversion. Thoroughly confusing.
Warrior Richardson: I fin...
Warrior Richardson: I fin...
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June 7, 2023 • 2 mins
these alter calls last forever. It lasted for at least an hour. I think it was longer than that. I think it was an hour and a half. Yeah, I think it was an hour and a half long alter call. And they were singing "Lord let your spirit fall on me" by Shirley Ceasar and I was soloing almost like the whole time for about an hour and a half. And my Grandfather looked at me dead in the eye the moment I was born again, which reminded me he...
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June 5, 2023 • 2 mins
I realized that I did not have a basis for deciding what is right or what is wrong, and that was very uncomfortable. And so, the discomfort intensified.
Making a long story short, once I went back home to Omaha, Nebraska I actually reached the point where life seemed meaningless because those were the logical conclusions of my atheistic assumptions. And when I reached that point where I couldn't care whether I lived or died (because...
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May 15, 2023 • 2 mins
I quit my job and eventually went back to Omaha Nebraska. (I was in Washington, DC.) What happened when i went back home--I'm leaving out a lot of details--I had gotten so good at making so many arguments against the Christian faith that it became clear to me what the implications of my own arguments were--the implications of my own arguments that so firmly demonstrated, allegedly, that there is no Go.
But the reality is that if the...
But the reality is that if the...
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May 8, 2023 • 2 mins
Warrior Richardson: Originally I went to the University of Rochester first and then I hated it; so, I transferred to Howard University and I continued to be atheistic. That was a very Christian campus. The student president was a Christian--openly Christian, an avid Christian; so, I was atheistic on a very Christian campus. Not that everybody was Christian; bur far more were Christian than at the University of Rochester.
I graduated...
I graduated...
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May 6, 2023 • 2 mins
Warrior Richardson: Horace was unusual. I was playing my saxophone in the practice room and I went and went out and he was in the cafeteria that was supposed to be closed, but it wasn't like that and there he was studying and it was like 4:00 in the morning; so I went up to him and thought, "I finally got it." It was like my precious catch. So he was going to shake his faith. So, I went in there and he was his usual happy smiling s...
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May 5, 2023 • 2 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: What made you play that song?
Warrior Richardson: Oh. It’s a jazz standard. A lot of jazz musicians play Amazing Grace. Well, it’s not a jazz standard; but a lot of jazz musicians play Amazing Grace. It’s just a tune that we play.
Dr. Monica Larson: Hmm, well, for your particular case God had another purpose. It was a spiritual setup.
Warrior Richardson: Very clear in hindsight.
Dr. Monica Larson: Mm hmm. You felt th...
Warrior Richardson: Oh. It’s a jazz standard. A lot of jazz musicians play Amazing Grace. Well, it’s not a jazz standard; but a lot of jazz musicians play Amazing Grace. It’s just a tune that we play.
Dr. Monica Larson: Hmm, well, for your particular case God had another purpose. It was a spiritual setup.
Warrior Richardson: Very clear in hindsight.
Dr. Monica Larson: Mm hmm. You felt th...
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May 4, 2023 • 2 mins
Dr. Monica Larson: You were talking about how you had a lot of atheist friends and you intentionally tripped up Christians and terrorized them, were your words. It kind of reminded me of Paul in the scriptures a little.
Warrior Richardson: That’s what everybody says.
Dr. Monica Larson: Yeah, It did remind me of that and, so, did you feel any tugging at your heart prior to your conversion or did you feel anything or were you just stil...
Warrior Richardson: That’s what everybody says.
Dr. Monica Larson: Yeah, It did remind me of that and, so, did you feel any tugging at your heart prior to your conversion or did you feel anything or were you just stil...
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May 3, 2023 • 2 mins
Warrior Richardson: I had questions and got no answer and I was a kid and so it angered me as a kid and even as an adult. As an adult I simply rejected it and walked away from it until I was 33.
Dr. Monica Larson: So you were met with resistance or just this is the way it is and accept it.
Warrior Richardson: Well, because I was told not to do this, but I must do this but never told why; so I was like "OK you need to explain why" and...
Dr. Monica Larson: So you were met with resistance or just this is the way it is and accept it.
Warrior Richardson: Well, because I was told not to do this, but I must do this but never told why; so I was like "OK you need to explain why" and...
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